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Concussions are a medical condition that are a very serious condition. According to WebMD, “a concussion is a type of traumatic brain injury that this caused by a blow to the head or body, a fall, or another injury that shakes the brain”. Most people don’t even show symptoms of a concussion if they got one. Some people do show obvious symptoms of having a concussion like passing out or forgetting some information about how they got the concussion. There is no time table on when you will recover…

The Road, a post-apocalyptic novel by Cormac McCarthy, follows the journey of survival of the Man and the Boy in a burnt world covered in ash. To escape the incoming cold weather, they decide to head down south to the coast. With nothing but a pistol, a cart of supplies, and each other, they must cope with hunger, thirst, and the dangers of the land. Along the way, they experience close encounters with bands of cannibals who either will try to enslave or kill them. Throughout the novel, the son,…

A world without color, wildlife and structure sets the background for a heroic journey that wouldn´t be taken on by many. Cormac McCarthy’s The Road is a book about a Man and a Boy traveling south years after a worldwide event ending in the death of many people. They are challenged by many hardships including cannibals and starvation. McCarthy’s inspiration for The Road was a trip to El Paso, Texas with his son in 2003. He imagined a world 100 years in the future. McCarthy has won many awards…

I Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, two characters, the man and the boy, are living through a cataclysmic disaster that destroyed every normal way of life. They have to fight the cold and other human threats, while staying moral. The author uses a rift from home to illuminate that companionship is the key to life that the boy and the man experience through enrichments between characters and alienation of others. Companionship between the man and the boy enrich their lives through tough situations.…

The Road, written by Cormac McCarthy in 2006, is about the journey of a father and son through a post-apocalyptic world. The father and son, referred to as “Boy and Papa” in the book, have to find a way to navigate this new world and the people that come with it. McCarthy shows when in life or death situations people will become only focused on surviving. They often forget morals they have developed and become selfish and only concerned with themselves. Although Boy and and Papa do not eat…

Martin Luther King Jr. once said “We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was ‘legal’ and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was ‘illegal.’” People must stand up for the issues of justice even if it is illegal because without them what will become of their society. Although opponents may say that taking a stand on issues of justice in society is not important, in actuality it is very important for a person to take a stand on issues of justice in…

Whilst Beasts of the Southern Wild and The Road examine humanity in a post-apocalyptic context, The Sense of an Ending deals with humanity in circumstances a little closer to home. Yet, all compositions have been able to explore the perception of humanity that became evident in the specific situation, thus showing the significance…

Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven highlights the importance of art in a world that needs more than survival through connections of modern society to a fictional post-apocalyptic society. In addition, Mandel uses the post-apocalyptic genre convention of dystopian society to emphasize the importance of art for people in a chaotic world dealing with hardships. With the publication of this novel being significantly recent, Mandel tries to appeal to an audience living in a time that is dominated…

Negative reviews of At Fault objected to Chopin’s subjects—divorce and alcoholism— and her truthful portrayal of everyday life. As the reviewer for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch wrote, “One shudders at hearing Hosmer tell his wife to ‘shut up,’ and we protest against Melicent’s five engagements. (Larrabee, Denise) Her characters in this novel survived unhappy marriages and spoke to each other uncivilly when angry…

An interest to me that comes up in the novel, The Road by Cormac McCarthy, is survival. The Road is 287 pages telling a journey, in third person omniscient, of a man and his son on a road trying to survive in a world where a catastrophic event caused destruction of human civilization. Death is a constant worry as The Man and The son continue on the road. There is no electricity or phones, all stores are empty, no houses for shelter, plant life is gone, and no fish in the water. In the novel,…